Reliability Trial – New Organiser Needed

Posted on 23/Oct/2013 by John Williams

After a few years of organising the annual Reliability Trial family commitments force me to hand over the reins to someone else.

It’s a good chance for someone to take on a well established and popular event and put something back into the club and the sport.  It’s not a difficult job, a ready supply of willing helpers from the club sees to  that. The rewards are great, especially if you get out onto the course to take photos of the riders (Smalldean Lane is best for this) where those who can will call out their appreciation for your efforts.

If you’re interested you can mail me at squadra dot verde at gmail dot com and I’ll tell you in more detail what’s involved.

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This week’s Brent and Kilburn Times

Posted on 18/Oct/2013 by Miles Back

Several of our riders get a mention in this weeks Brent and Kilburn Times ( Electronic edition available here).

Brent-Kilburn times 2013-10-17

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Hill Climb Result Oct 13th

Posted on 14/Oct/2013 by mickpaddington

The weather was back to torment the riders again for Sunday’s last event of the Time trial season. 3 Willesden riders braved the conditions and of those, 2 riders Tom Zittel and Stuart Birnie claimed overall joint 2nd places with a lung busting time of 2mins 6 seconds.

Full report here – https://willesdencyclingclub.co.uk/about/time-trials/race-reports-2013-2/

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Jack Eason 200 Struggle ride. Competition to create a route

Posted on 14/Oct/2013 by Ian Oliver

A route is needed for this new ride commemorating Jack, which will be run on the same day as the renamed 10 Thames Bridges and Kaf-to-Kaf and I will hopefully get expert help designing it and then running the event. There will be a competition for best route, or given that the winner’s prize will be less than life changing, maybe it will get crowd-sourced.

The ride will be on Sunday13th April 2014. It will start from Maidenhead and it needs to be at least 200km from start to finish. The route selection will be based on:
1 Quality of the route – are the roads mainly quiet and scenic?
2 Quality of the controls – are the stops decent?
3 Your explanation of why your route should be chosen.
The route submitted needs only to be roughly viable, i.e. close enough to 200km it can be tuned to meet the AUK rules

The prize will be a pair of plimsolls, free entry for two on any of the three Jack Eason rides in 2014 and an appropriate bottle of something.

Details and Rules

1. Entry is open to anybody
2. You should submit a route and a list of suggested controls for en-route pit stops and an explanation of why your route should be the chosen one. The judges’ attention span is quite short, by the way.
3. Suggesting Info controls is optional. A GPX trace of the route is preferred, but if that’s difficult a list of the main points the ride should go through will suffice.
4. The closing date is midnight 31sh October 2013. The result will be announced soon after and the plimsolls will be awarded on ride day.
5. Please email entries to ianoli2010-audax at yahoo dot co dot uk and include your name and contact details.
6. The start point should be assumed to be the Riverside Gardens, Maidenhead – same as the other rides.
7. Entries will be judged by me and Mr Why and our decision is final.
8. The organiser will make up other rules as he goes along, as necessary.

Background info.

The 110 ride is published and the route can be found at http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3191110. The control for it and the 62K ride is Dinton Pastures near Winnersh, but your route does not have to go there.
You cannot cycle through Windsor Great Park after dusk

Jack’s inspiring audaxing life is described here.

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Friday Night Turbo – Starting 25th October 2013

Posted on 11/Oct/2013 by Miles Back

Turbo juiceThose with posh houses – look in the garage….

Those not in posh houses – look in the loft, or under the bed or behind the sofa… somewhere a dusty and forgotten Turbo will looking for some love. Its time has now come! Turbo Torture night will be starting at the Hillingdon circuit from Friday 25th October onwards.

Old hands will know the score, pay Ray Kelly £3.00 a week (£1.00 for Under 18’s) so he can have the pleasure of making your suffer for a full hour or more. New hands will soon be old hands.

Set-up/warm-up from 6:00 pm – The Turbo session will start at 6:30 pm for one hour.

Bring your own turbo, block for front wheel, towel, bidon and a mat to go under your turbo. If possible also remember to bring your sense of humour and a positive mental attitude, you’ll need those for the tea and biscuits afterwards.

There will be a limited number of Turbo’s available for those who do not have one.

Note: Racing on the circuit will continue as usual from 5:30pm, sign-on in the club room.

Either way “Death-Ray” Kelly is waiting for you…..

Devil-kelly

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Club Runs Oct-Dec 2013

Posted on 07/Oct/2013 by John Wheatley

Here is your new club runs list.

As usual, it contains a mixture of predictable, boring destinations alongside exciting, new and fresh excursions, all laid on for your cycling amusement.  Corrections will be posted as soon as they are pointed out, as per the established procedure.

WILLESDEN CYCLING CLUB

CLUB RUNS 2013

 

October-December

OCTOBER

WCC Club Run

Options / notes
 

13

Dinton  (also –  Kew Bridge – special)

KEW BRIDGE PATHS RIDE – LEADER BRIAN MOON

MEET 09.30 NORTH SIDE KEW
 

20

Amersham

Deep Mill Diner
 

27

Cheddington

Canal Cafe
 

NOVEMBER

 

03

Off Road Special – Led by Brian Moon

09.30 Denham as per usual
 

10

Ivinghoe

 

17

Wokingham

Farm Cafe
 

24

Wendover Woods

 

DECEMBER

 

01

WCC AGM

to be preceded by the Annual Fryathlon Event tbc
 

08

Chinnor Railway/Bledlow

Festive Special, with pub lunch option
 

15

Tring

Espresso Lounge
 

22

Chalfont St Giles

Rowan Garden Centre
 

29

Dorney

Walled Garden
 

Important information:

 

All club runs start from Oxford Road, Denham (outside Shane’s Garden Centre) at 09.30 unless otherwise stated.

 

All club runs will be at the speed of the slowest rider.

 

We recommend that you wear a hard shell helmet, in the interests of safety.

 

In bad weather please use a bike with mudguards and a rear mud-flap

to help keep you and other riders clean.      

 

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Free Willesden Kit for riders who are under 18

Posted on 07/Oct/2013 by Tony Woodford

Great news we have received a grant from Wembley Stadium for our young riders which will enable us  to supple free kit to Willesden Riders who are under 18.
Riders need to complete in a number of events in Willesden Colours. These can be Road Races, Circuit Races, Track Meetings, Time Trials up to 25 miles, Audax events under 100k,  Cyclo Cross, or Mountain bike races.

From a start date of the 1st July 2013

When you have completed 10 events free Club short sleeve Jersey if you have not already had one on joining.

When you have completed 15 events free Bib shorts.

When you have completed  20 events free long sleeve Jersey.

Riders must complete a form listing the events they have taken part in to receive the free kit from Ray Kelly.

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OCTOBER MONTHLY MEETING

Posted on 01/Oct/2013 by Wendy Mears

Willesden Cycling  Club monthly meeting is being held this Friday 4 October 2013 at 8.00 p.m. at Minet Park.   Reminder to Club Officers to send your reports to Ian or Wendy if you cannot make the meeting.  Be there or be square!

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Hill Climb Oct 13th

Posted on 30/Sep/2013 by mickpaddington
All
It’s the last West London Combine event of the 2013 time trial season. It’s short, it’s sharp and it’s a lung buster.
It’s the Hill Climb !
Usual venue, Windsor Hill in Wooburn Green. First rider will be sent off at 09.31. If you would like to enter please let me have your entry by the end of the coming week.
Here’s a nice little map of the course, which gives you no idea of just how steep it is, especially at the top.
Regards
Mick Paddington
Willesden CC TT Sec
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PETITION – BECAUSE I AM A CYCLIST

Posted on 28/Sep/2013 by Wendy Mears

We have received correspondence from fellow cyclists about a petition containing nearly 3,000 signatures campaigning against Ride London, sportives, and cycling in general across Surrey.

Please sign the petition below which is a direct response to a petition entitled: ‘Stop Surrey being turned into a cycle track’   Surrey County Council: Interact and give knowledge to those you represent.

Petition:  http://www.change.org/petitions/because I am a cyclist

Please distribute to all who love the pleasure of cycling.   We want THOUSANDS of signatures!

Surrey embraced the Olympics and Ride London, and only recently, thousands turned out to watch the Tour of Britain.  Let’s keep building on this great legacy

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New Strava Club Leader-boards

Posted on 26/Sep/2013 by Tom

Strava has made some improvements to the club pages that should help motivate us to ride this winter. You can now see who is doing the biggest rides, most miles and most climbing. Check out the new leader-board the Willesden Strava page.

Strava Club Leaderboard

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100K and 200K Club Audaxes, 5th October

Posted on 20/Sep/2013 by Ian Oliver

Saturday October 5 brings the start of the new Willesden Audax season, kicking off with the Nyctophobic 100km and Anfractuous 200km from ride HQ at Chalfont St Peter nr Denham with wooded Chiltern lanes and rolling downs galore. The routes head west to the Waterside Café at Benson via Christmas Common, then whilst the Nyctophobic turns for home the Anfractruous heads west to the rolling downland of Wantage before heading home. In fact there are two versions of the Anfractuous this year, the regular route and an extended and officially hilly AAAnfractuous. Full details and online entry, available to everybody via the Audax UK website, at www.aukweb.net

afractious1

Anfractious 2

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HOODIES

Posted on 14/Sep/2013 by Wendy Mears

Ray Kelly will be ordering some club hoodies soon.  These will be dark grey, embroidered with the club logo and name on the chest.  They will be available in men and women fittings.  The cost will be around £40 and Ray will require a deposit of £20 from anyone interested in owning one of these desirable garments.  The sizes available will be from Small to XXXL.

Ray will be able to order childrens sizes as well and the cost for these will be approx £20.   The colour will be similar but probably not an exact match to the adult ones.

If you want one, please show your initial interest by contacting Ray Kelly.

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Tom Zittel’s debut as a trackie makes the local paper!

Posted on 14/Sep/2013 by Miles Back

Brent and Kilburn Times 12 Sep 13

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Items For Sale

Posted on 11/Sep/2013 by John Wheatley

Items For Sale

To enquire about any of these items please contact Willesden friend Dennis Harris on den_har2003 at yahoo dot co dot uk.  Reasonable offers welcomed.
Oakley M Frame Glasses with cloth bag and box £50
Spare yellow lens £35

Dura Ace band on front mech 9 speed £30

Bryton Rider 40 GPS Cycling Computer – New still boxed – £110
Pre-loaded workout programs and test workouts.
Provides systematic and scientific training course to maximize your exercise output.
Pre-loaded with 4 sets of FTP (Functional Threshold Power), MHR (Maximum Heart Rate), LTHR (Lactate Threshold Heart Rate) and MAP (Maximum Aerobic Power) training courses. 7 pre-loaded workout courses are also provided for your training: Easy Ride, Tempo Interval, Cruise Internal, Time Trial Interval, Anaerobic-endurance Interval, Power it up and 100% MAP Interval.
Combo sensor for indoor training
Built-in barometer for training with terrain

Chain-rings
Shimano Dura-Ace SG A-42 (part no 17V4200 – new in packaging) £40
Shimano Ultegra SG 42 (part no 16H4200) £20
Campagnolo 54 144pcd £20
Campagnolo 51 135pcd £20
Royal LA 51 135pcd £10
Plain ring 50 144PCD £5

1 Set of Campagnolo Chain Ring Bolts new £20

Mini Pump with bottle cage clamp new £10
Double Barrelled Mini Pump with bottle cage clamp new £10

Regina 6 speed screw on block 12 to 17 £12
5 speed screw on block 13 to 17 £10

Clarks cables all new still in packaging Front Brake 2, Rear Brake 1, Gear Cables 3 all £1 each

Ambrosio 3M Chequered Handlebar Tape 1 Green/White £2
Handlebar Tape Lock Rings included

Aztec Brake Blocks 1 pair + 1 new £5

Threaded Sprocket 20 tooth 1 new £2

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Track Champs Photo’s

Posted on 09/Sep/2013 by Tony Woodford

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Results from Club Track Champs

Posted on 09/Sep/2013 by Tony Woodford

Great turn out for the Club track champs on Sunday 8th at Welwyn. Some great racing with lots of new faces to track racing putting in some good rides. We should at last have a Willesden Track team racing next season.

All Riders
Name No. TT Time TT Sprint Points Scratch Elimination Total Position
Marianne   Harding 1 16.86 14 16 8 13 12 63 13
Connor   Woodford 3 13.82 3 5 1 5 1 15 2 Schoolboy track champ
Rod Woodford 4 15.36 10 12 8 17 10 57 11
Ray George 5 14.29 6 7 8 15 14 50 8
Dave 6 16.89 15 14 8 7 15 59 12
Darryl Lusardi 7 16.26 11 10 8 1 9 39 7
Tony Lusardi 8 16.61 13 11 8 12 11 55 10
R Finestone 9 14.7 8 8 6 8 6 36 6
Callum Oliver 10 14.26 5 3 1 4 3 16 3
Roger Woodford 11 12.77 1 1 3 3 2 10 1 Senior Track Champ
Kirsten Savage 13 14.45 7 9 5 9 9 39 7 Schoolgirl track champ
Lauren Savage 14 16.33 12 13 8 10 8 51 9
Alex Pierce 15 15.26 9 6 4 2 12 33 6 Junior Track Champ
Ray Kelly 16 16.89 15 15 8 11 16 65 14
Sam Grant 17 13.77 2 2 7 14 7 32 5
Tom Zittel 18 13.95 4 4 8 6 4 26 4
Mike Ellison 19 19.09 17 17 8 16 16 74 15
Under 8 Riders
Vicky 2 17.07 1 1
Lucie 12 14.45 2 2
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Track Results from Reading and Welwyn

Posted on 09/Sep/2013 by Tony Woodford
Results from last week on Monday at Reading Tom Zittel at his first ever track meeting made the final of the Sprint and finished 3rd .
On Friday at Welwyn Roger Woodford won the Senior B 10 lap scratch race in the final sprint for the line.
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Welwyn results Friday 30th August

Posted on 02/Sep/2013 by Tony Woodford

Roger Woodford was third in the senior B 10 lap scratch race and followed this up with a fine win in the elimination race from a strong field of senior riders.

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Club Track Champs this Sunday 8th September

Posted on 02/Sep/2013 by Tony Woodford

Just a reminder the Club Track Champs are this Sunday 8th September at Welwyn. Please arrive by 9.30 for a 10.00 start. Hire bikes available at £3.00.

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